Indian Tribes and Issue of Social Inclusion and Exclusion

Abstract

The dilemma in tribal administration has been centering round the issue of tribal development in a right direction. But what is right or fair is the big question. There is lot of controversy over the present day development paradigm of tribal development. The tribal people have been facing problems from both inclusion in to and exclusion from the dominant development paradigm of the country. The tribal societies have experienced religious and other cultural inclusion in to the so called universal or dominant culture and consequently faced the problem of identity crisis. Exclusion from infrastructure and health and education etc has led them to a situation where they find it difficult to cope with the outside world at present day situation. The paper tries to find out what were the means and aims of tribal exclusion and inclusion and the consequences of the same with some instances.